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Intelligent surfacing of reminders

a reminder and intelligent technology, applied in the field of intelligent surfacing of reminders, can solve problems such as not providing enough advance notice to users

Active Publication Date: 2016-11-24
MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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The patent is about a system that can remind users of upcoming events based on their calendars, user profiles, and other contextual information. The system can also identify other individuals and predict when the user will be close to them in the future, allowing for timely reminders. The technical effect is to improve user experience and make events and appointments easier to remember and manage.

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Existing services may be limited to presenting or triggering a reminder at the time of an event, a default time period before the event, or at some time period specified by a user, which may or may not provide enough advance notice to the user.

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[0010]Triggering an event reminder or notification in a user device in advance of an associated event or task may provide the user with enough time to travel and / or make whatever preparations may be needed for the event or task. Contextual information may be utilized to determine how far in advance to surface, or trigger, a notification. Contextual information about an event may be determined from user profile information such as frequently visited locations, frequently traveled routes, locations associated with an event, individuals associated with the user, locations associated with the user, a user's current location, and so forth. Contextual information about an event may also be determined from other information in the user's calendar and / or information from another user's calendar. In an embodiment, contextual information in combination with data or parameters associated with a reminder is utilized to determine a relevant time to surface the reminder. A relevant time may inclu...

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Abstract

Calendar and scheduling applications organize and display user events and provide event reminders. A method of triggering a reminder includes accessing a reminder which describes an event. An individual associated with the event, other than the user, is identified. A future time is predicted when the user will be within proximity of the individual. A time to trigger the reminder for presentation to the user is determined, such that the time to trigger the reminder occurs in advance of the predicted future time when the user will be within proximity of the individual. Based on a determination that the time for triggering the reminder has occurred, the reminder is triggered to be presented to the user.

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BACKGROUND[0001]Calendar and scheduling applications and services generally organize and display a user's activities, tasks, jobs, appointments, meetings, and other types of events. They may also provide event reminders or notifications that are presented to a user based on the date and time of an event. Existing services may be limited to presenting or triggering a reminder at the time of an event, a default time period before the event, or at some time period specified by a user, which may or may not provide enough advance notice to the user. Some approaches to triggering reminders are based on geofencing and / or detecting communication with an individual associated with a reminder.BRIEF SUMMARY[0002]This summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used as a...

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IPC IPC(8): H04W4/02G01C21/36G01C21/34G06Q10/10H04M1/725H04M1/72451
CPCH04W4/028H04W4/021G01C21/3697H04M1/72566G01C21/3438G06Q10/109G06Q10/00H04W4/029H04M1/72451
Inventor CREIGHTON, JASON TIMOTHYWANKHEDE, AMOLHORVITZ, ERICNANDI, AJOYLIM, MELISSA N.DESHPANDE, MANGESHKOCH, PAULKRUMM, JOHN CHARLES
Owner MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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